![New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban....](/pictures/thumb/3726665_1.jpg?v=1580932116)
“The octoroon despised, spurned, penned up in scornful coolness, liable to public sale and scourge—the colored woman you see yonder, kept a white man for..... Read More about New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban
Three manuscripts pertaining to the estate of Benjamin Morgan (?–1826), Philadelphia merchant and sugar planter, later President of the Bank of Orleans at New Orleans..... Read More about 1826 Estate Financial Inventory and Accounts of 19th-Century New Orleans Banker and Millionaire...
Legal instrument protest signed by John Neilson, Jr., Notary Public, at the request of Messrs. Corning & Co. This latter firm presented a bill of..... Read More about United States of America, State of New York. SS. On the eighth day of May in the year of our Lord...
With a New Orleans connection, an intriguing holograph manuscript leaf signed twice by José Echegaray (1832–1916), a Nobel Laureate in Literature. The note is addressed..... Read More about C.1912–1916 Autograph Note Signed by José Echegaray Nobel Literature Laureate, Spanish...
![Drum. [Falconcrest Series]. Kyle Onstott, 1887–1966](/pictures/thumb/3729823_1.jpg?v=1604510046)
The second book in the Falconcrest trilogy, the sequel to Mandingo, and followed by Master of Falconhurst. The story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the..... Read More about Drum. [Falconcrest Series
Writ of execution issued by New Orleans judge Charles Watts in the case of Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan, Niven & Co., & Buchanan..... Read More about First Judicial District Court. The State of Louisiana .... [Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan,...
Three related documents signed by wardens of the Port of New Orleans including two partly printed forms, similarly titled, likely printed in New Orleans before..... Read More about Port-Wardens’ Office, New-Orleans… [two partly printed documents likely printed in New...
![New Orleans] 1925 Standard Specifications for Grades of Southern Pine Lumber. Southern Pine...](/pictures/thumb/3727080_1.jpg?v=1591818992)
1925 Book of technical specifications for grading, cutting, and fabricating Southern pine lumber for construction and architectural use. The illustrated booklet was prepared by the..... Read More about New Orleans] 1925 Standard Specifications for Grades of Southern Pine Lumber
![The White Slave. [Stereoview Card]. Dealer in.. Stereoscopes William Harrison, Views.. Philadelphia](/pictures/thumb/3726682_1.jpg?v=1534362441)
Stereoview photograph of an African-American dandy having his shoes shined by a little white boy. The caption title, The White Slave, archly refers both to..... Read More about The White Slave. [Stereoview Card
